Temples, shrines, temples, good food, temples, and conveniently close to other top destinations (that, incidentally, have some spectacular temples), Kyoto deserves a prominent place on your Japan itinerary. After a hectic five days exploring bustling, modern Tokyo, we hopped on the bullet train to Kyoto to spend the next five […]
Note: This post contains affiliate links. As always, we only link to products we’ve used and that we think add value to our readers. When Sam and I started traveling a lot, something we heard frequently was, “Good for you! Get it in now before you have kids!” The obvious […]
Pssst: check out our recaps for 2016, 2017, and 2018. As we rang in 2019, I was almost seven months pregnant with our first child, and we knew our lives would change forever—including if and how we traveled. For years people told us we needed to get travel “out of […]
Visiting Japan is an experience unlike any other. After all, it’s the only place in the world where straight-laced business people can stay out all night singing Britney Spears karaoke and popping into cafes to cuddle hedgehogs and it’s totally normal. It’s also the only place where you can enter […]